Embassy of Guatemala

2220 R Street, NW estadosunidos.minex.gob.gt, @embaguateUSA

Jonathan Ardon (Painter) 

Jonathan Ardon’s birds, like certain obsessive thoughts, are brief and intense, and as such, disturb the observer subjecting him to fierce scrutiny of his hypnotic eyes of persistent frontal gaze. Reduced to a cheeky role of confronting with a look, its most throbbing vitality  - its realism- is concentrated between the head and chest, while the other parts of their bodies, stripped from the convincing plumage that the artist provides the former through chiaroscuro, reveal their truest graphic structure of drawing and concept, leaning towards not to impress our senses but to disturb our consciousness with eloquent language of clipped wings and sharp claws. 

Lacking color, Jonathan’s birds drawings are, beyond naturalistic records of local fauna or proof of his technical virtuosity, laborious accomplishments of expressive concentration.

David Talavera (Musician) 

Is a Latino band since 2005 in the DC metro area from Guatemala .

Performing many kinds of music styles (world music), we have been working with many embassies like Mexico, Peru Colombia and Guatemala.  Also we performed in the important Latin festivals like Fiesta DC for many years now. We also contributed to Dupont Circle event for some years.